Definition of Gable roof

1. Noun. A double sloping roof with a ridge and gables at each end.

Exact synonyms: Saddle Roof, Saddleback, Saddleback Roof
Specialized synonyms: Gambrel, Gambrel Roof
Terms within: Gutter, Trough, Ridge, Ridgepole, Rooftree
Generic synonyms: Roof

Definition of Gable roof

1. Noun. (context: roofing) a single-ridge roof that terminates at gable ends. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Lexicographical Neighbors of Gable Roof

gaberts
gabexate
gabey
gabfest
gabfests
gabies
gabion
gabionade
gabionades
gabioned
gabionnade
gabionnades
gabions
gable
gable end
gable roof (current term)
gable roofs
gable wall
gabled
gablelike
gables
gablet
gablets
gabling
gablock
gablocks
gabnash
gabnashes
gabon
gabonase

Literary usage of Gable roof

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Cyclopedia of American Agriculture: A Popular Survey of Agricultural by Liberty Hyde Bailey (1908)
"561 that the house with the combination roof requires less lumber than the gable-roof house, and that the latter requires less than the shed roof. ..."

2. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A piece of board hung from the edge of a gable roof where it projects beyond the ... One of the pair of rafters which carry that part of a gable roof which ..."

3. A Dictionary of Architecture and Building, Biographical, Historical, and by Russell Sturgis (1901)
"A piece of board hung from the edge of a gable roof where it projects beyond the ... One of the pair of rafters which carry that part of a gable roof which ..."

4. Cyclopedia of Civil Engineering: A General Reference Work on Surveying by American Technical Society (1917)
"The gambrel roof is a variation of the simple pitch or gable roof and was probably developed from it to meet a new condition, namely, the necessity for more ..."

5. The Century Dictionary: An Encyclopedic Lexicon of the English Language by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"... gable or gable-shaped feature, frequently introduced as an ornament on buttresses, screens, etc., particularly in medieval structures. a gable-roof. ..."

6. A Treatise on Design and Construction of Roofs by Nathan Clifford Ricker (1912)
"WALL SUPPORTINO A gable roof (Fig. 448) 365. Description.—A single masonry wall supports a gable roof n'sting on cantilever trusses, forming a structure ..."

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